Bonjour, Vermelles

Vermelles seems to me the smallest town in the world. It does,on the other hand, have a lot of charm to make up for the lack of size. All of the houses look very similar with a French countryside sort of charm. The land is mostly flat, save scattered mountains made of unusable coal that was deposited by the miners when this was an coalmining town. I can walk to the breadstore, but it was closed when I did so with Heloise, so instead we went to E.Leclerc, the local WalMart type store with everything ranging from food to photos to clothes to appliances, etc... Twenty minutes away, there is a place that sells organic vegetables every Thursday and we all went there and picked up a two large baskets. The back yard has a small garden and (Dad, you'll like this) three hens and a rooster!